The electronic and optical properties of graphene can be precisely tuned by generating deterministic arrangements of strain features. In this paper, we report the formation of widespread and controlled buckling delamination of monolayer graphene deposited on hexagonal boron-nitride promoted by a significant squeezing of the graphene flake and induced by polymeric micro-actuators. The flexibility of this method offers a promising technique to create arbitrary buckling geometries and arrays of wrinkles which could also be subjected to iterative folding-unfolding cycles. Further development of this method could pave the way to tune the properties of several kinds of other two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, by tailoring their surface topography.
@article{arxiv.2206.01687,
title = {Strain-engineered wrinkles on graphene using polymeric actuators},
author = {Davide Giambastiani and Cosimo Tommasi and Federica Bianco and Filippo Fabbri and Camilla Coletti and Alessandro Tredicucci and Alessandro Pitanti and Stefano Roddaro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01687},
year = {2022}
}